Algeria, Libya set aside row to tackle security
* Neighbours to exchange high-level meetings * Talks to focus on combatting insurgents, arms smugglers * Libya, Algeria ties fraught since Gaddafi's overthrow By Lamine Chikhi and Ali Shuaib ALGIERS/TRIPOLI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - North African neighbours Libya and...
Police and hardline Islamists clash in Tunisian town
* Salafists using sticks, knives and petrol bombs - witnesses * Tensions between hardline Islamists and secularists By Tarek Amara Tunis, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Police in a Tunisian town used tear gas on Thursday to break up a crowd of about 200 hardline Islamists, armed...
UN announces next round of talks to try to resolve Western Sahara dispute
Separated families meet up again during a family visit in Western Sahara. Photo: UNHCR/S.Hopper The next round of United Nations-backed informal talks aimed at reaching a settlement in the Western Sahara dispute will take place next month, the UN announced...
Upcoming Informal Talks On The Sahara To Deepen “New Ideas” Put Forward By UNSG
New York (U.N.) - During the upcoming talks on the Sahara, due on March 11-13, the parties will further discuss the new ideas put forward by the Secretary-General in his report to the Security Council. During this new round, to be held at the invitation of the...
RWE to open UK’s biggest biomass
Green Business LONDON (Reuters) - RWE npower will start commercial operations at Britain's biggest biomass power station at Tilbury in Essex at the end of January, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. The third of three units at the 750-megawatt (MW) power plant will start...
‘Friends of Syria’ ready ultimatum for Assad
Today's Zaman Tunisian Foreign Minister Aafik Abdessalem (L), Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Aamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani (2nd L), Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi (R), Morocco's Foreign Minister Saad Eddine Othmani (2nd R)...
Morocco extends duty exemption on wheat imports
RABAT (Reuters) - The Moroccan government extended the suspension of import duties on soft wheat until the end of April and on durum wheat until the end of May, a spokesman for the country's customs authority said on Friday. The decree was adopted at a government...
Morocco And Japan Discuss Three-Way Cooperation For Sub-Saharan States
Rabat - Moroccan head of government Abdelilah Benkirane met, on Friday in Rabat, with the vice-president of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Masakazu Ichikawa. The two sides discussed three-way cooperation, especially for the benefit of sub-Saharan...
Chairman’s Conclusions of the International Conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, 24 February
U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC February 24, 2012 1. The first meeting of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People (“the Friends’ Group”), was held in Tunis on 24 February 2012, with the participation of more than 60 countries and...
27 Moroccans jailed on terrorism charges
Sale tribunal sentences criminal gang to prison terms of one to six years for planning terrorist attacks in Morocco. Middle East Online Five soldiers were brought before a tribunal charged with lack of vigilance RABAT - A Moroccan court on Thursday sentenced 27 men...